Karim S Karim, associate professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Waterloo, Canada, has received a $100,000 grant to pursue research on tuberculosis detection. He speaks to Malini Sen about his invention
Tuberculosis affects a third of the world’s population and claims 1.8 million lives annually, most of them in Asia and Africa. Karim S Karim, who was born in Pakistan and moved to Canada almost 20 years ago, has seen the devastation that tuberculosis can cause. As a child in Pakistan, he vividly recalls seeing patients with tuberculosis cough up blood. Both his parents were doctors and he heard a lot about the disease at home
via Fighting tuberculosis – The Times of India.
Related: University of Waterloo associate professor Karim S. Karim is developing a low-cost digital x-ray tool to detect TB in developing countries
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